{"id":11395,"date":"2014-06-08T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2014-06-08T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:17:09","slug":"learnboost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2014\/06\/08\/learnboost\/","title":{"rendered":"LearnBoost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/39e1b056e6a99603a556ca2fb3045a9a_400x400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11396\" src=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/39e1b056e6a99603a556ca2fb3045a9a_400x400-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"39e1b056e6a99603a556ca2fb3045a9a_400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> LearnBoost is a free all in one program for classrooms.\u00a0 It provides teachers with a variety of apps to manage their classroom more efficiently.\u00a0 The features include, grade book, attendance, lesson planning, reporting, parent and student access, dynamic seating, flexible scheduling, integrated calendars, multilingual and quick paced.\u00a0 It is meant to be the all in one device for classroom management and organization.\u00a0 This app can be paired with Google Apps for education to make sharing more seem less.\u00a0 This app is geared for teachers although it can be used by parents and students as well.\u00a0 It is a well rounded classroom management device to aid with organization.\u00a0 The seed for the company was\u00a0at $975,000. \u00a0 LearnBoost was founded by three individuals, Rafael Corrales, Guillermo Rauch and Thianh Lu.\u00a0 Although only Rafeal Corrales continues to be the CEO of the company, so I have chosen to focus on him.\u00a0 Mr. Corrales attended Harvard school of Business as well as Georgia Institute of Technology.\u00a0 He co-founded LearnBoost but is also an investor in Charles River Ventures, Pebble and an advisor for many other companies such as Mind Snacks.\u00a0 LearnBoost was named one of the best start-ups of 2010.\u00a0 He is continually looking for new ventures and ways to support other entrepreneurs.\u00a0 He is an avid blogger and states his views on education and prides himself on being a start up entrepreneur.\u00a0 He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333233\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/2436-522cd6b626c099b38a1467d394bc1b3b-medium_jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11397\" src=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/2436-522cd6b626c099b38a1467d394bc1b3b-medium_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"2436-522cd6b626c099b38a1467d394bc1b3b-medium_jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LearnBoost is a free all in one program for classrooms.\u00a0 It provides teachers with a variety of apps to manage their classroom more efficiently.\u00a0 The features include, grade book, attendance, lesson planning, reporting, parent and student access, dynamic seating, flexible scheduling, integrated calendars, multilingual and quick paced.\u00a0 It is meant to be the all in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[548408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}